 Franklin Buchanan, now occupying the very highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now. Unquestionably if we had seized and held...  Truth from an Honest Man - Page 1by Abraham Lincoln - 1863 - 16 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 554 pages
...highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the Government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors...weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime denned in the law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on habeas corpus were... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1890 - 800 pages
...highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors...insurgent cause would be much weaker. But no one of them hod then committed any crime defined in the law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have been discharged... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of th Government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors...of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on habeat corpus, were the writ allowed to operate. In view of these and similar cases, I think the time... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...places in the rebel war servil were all within the power of the government since the rebellion b? gan, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then...Unquestionably if we had seized and held them, the insurgent caused would be much weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime defined in the law. Every... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...began, anJ were nearly as well known to the traitors then as now. Unquestionably, if we had siezed and held them, the insurgent cause would be much weaker....no one of them had then committed any crime defined by law. Every one of them, it' •rrested, would have been discharged on habeat corptit, were the writ... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now. Unquestionably if we had seized and h^ld them the insurgent cause would be much weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 564 pages
...were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well-known to be traitors then as now. Unquestionably if we had...of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on Jwbeas corpus were the writ allowed to operate. In view of these and similar cases, I think the time... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1910 - 264 pages
...very highest places in the rebel war service, were all serving the United States before the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors then as now. Stanton in all his writings and speeches called those engaged in war against the United States "rebels"... | |
 | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Kathleen Hall Jamieson - History - 1990 - 285 pages
...places in the rebel war service, [who] were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began and were nearly as well known to be traitors...one of them had then committed any crime defined in law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on habeas corpus were the writ allowed... | |
 | Hadley Arkes - Law - 1992 - 296 pages
...highest places in the rebel war service, were all within the power of the government since the rebellion began, and were nearly as well known to be traitors...seized and held them, the insurgent cause would be much weaker.14 But as Lincoln also noted, none of them had committed, at the time, "any crime defined in... | |
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